I was out and about for most of the afternoon, so only caught the end of today’s Johnson circus up at Westminster, but I must say how much what I saw struck me like watching a student try to be the lecturer, or defendant presenting himself as judge. Boris Johnson seems the type of person who always has to be in charge, no matter who else is in the room. That has been pointed out before by others, of course, but this afternoon it really was on show. There is no way this man will ever admit he is in the wrong, even when it has been put far beyond reasonable doubt: we can all now see they were partying like hell in Downing Street while the rest of us were sheltering from COVID, yet Johnson will maintain black is white that the party’s were ‘work events’. And then, when his parliamentary colleagues bring him to book about it, he acts personally wounded, as if wrongly accused of something which everyone else can supposedly see he didn’t do. He is so arrogant that he presumes he has the authority to tell others what to think and what the comittee will find, posturing as though he was in charge of the entire hearing. It really was a sickening, even insulting spectacle. Boris Johnson is just a dishonest, manipulative public school bully, with an extraordinarily exaggerated sense of entitlement.

On a day upon which Sunak published his tax records, presumably gambling that they wouldn’t get much attention amid all the furore about Bojo or that we wouldn’t notice how little the tory Prime Minister contributes to society overall, you have to wonder, how the hell can we continue to allow these spoiled, selfish bastards to run our country?